Mary Grabar in a column at Townhall puts it to Barack. But more importantly, she emphasizes how those who have never gotten the special treatment of the likes of Barack have just gone to work and dealt with it all these years.

I guess it takes a privileged, spoiled brat like BhO to bring out the bitterness, that other have managed to handle with a degree of dignity along the way, and understand that life here in the US is far better from where their families came from, too.

Here’s the opening shot across the bow:

We know who you’re talking about, Barack Obama, when you talk about Pennsylvania and the Midwest, about small towns where the jobs have left. We know who you’re talking about when you talk about those who “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”

You’re talking about “those people.”

You’re talking about white people who have neither the family connections nor the racial credentials to gain entrance to the world that you inhabit. Many of the people you’re talking about are those whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who came to these places to work in steel mills, coal mines, and factories. We know the code words.

You’re talking about people whose culture is little known. We have been pretty quiet. We never tried to impose our culture on everyone. We never insisted on putting pictures of ourselves in our native dress into schoolbooks or mandating that our stories and songs be part of the curriculums.

We tried to maintain our culture without government aid, by forming our own churches and groups, and building Polish, Ukrainian, and Slovenian halls.

We never wore buttons declaring “Slav Power” or grouped together for purposes of intimidation or violence.
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Enjoy the rest, as she slices and dices his callous remarks with facts about those who never were admitted to the high places and mansions, except, of course, to clean the floors and change the sheets.

Said xformed @ 8:50 am | Permalink   

1. […] Xformed over at the Wide Awakes points to Mary Grabar’s column at Townhall as “putting it to Barack Obama, and importantly, emphasizing how those (of us) who have never gotten the special treatment of the likes of the Obamas - have just gone to work and dealt with it all these years. […]

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